Applied Materials

The Department of Applied Materials continually strives to forge new understandings that reflect the evolving nature of art and design practices. The specialist disciplines of ceramics, glass, stitch, knit, construction and manipulated textiles are understood to have come from craft traditions that have shared thinking and methodical approaches.

Applied Materials recognises the desire of the specialist practitioner and their relationship to materials and processes that encourages the individual ‘maker identity’ with that of interdisciplinarity, of design principles and practices with the theoretical and participatory nature of fine art.

Applied Materials is grounded in process-led thinking, whereby the making and the materiality determines the outcomes. This manifestation of process into object, artefact and / or experience, connects with maker, audience and user.

Applied Materials seeks out the discursive and proves its adaptive nature for new contexts. The making process and ‘craft-ship’ of the made work, finds relevant ways to communicate societal and cultural expression.